Month: September 2013

Bogie’s lightening escape on a rocketing cable car, they average about eight miles an hour, after accidentally killing Agnes Moorehead in ‘Dark Passage:You can still see the holes where the ladder was attached today at the location of the fire escape scene. The link here shows this scene and it’s 1947 images of Russian Hill, Union Square, and the Powell and Market St. cable car turntable.

Listen to Tyne Daly’s innuendos in this scene from ‘The Enforcer’ (1976) She’s got something on her mind!

On the left is a film overlap on Montgomery Street. When her tampered with brakes go, Valentina Cortese drives down just about every steep street on Telegraph Hill before crashing in this ridiculously hairy scene from ‘House on Telegraph Hill’. (She survives)

Well, they’re soon to change the Bay Bridge to the ‘Willie Brown’ Bridge, and, maybe, this will, one day, be called to the ‘Ray Harryhausen’ Bridge. Incidentally, the special effects artist that created great 1950’s monsters like this one from ‘It Came From Beneath the Sea’ just died earlier this year. Click on the link here for a colorized clip of this scene.

Pretty Lee Remick parks at Fisherman’s Wharf to await instructions on where to deliver ransom money to free her kidnapped sister, Stephanie Powers in ‘Experiment in Terror’.. She’s told by kidnapper Ross Martin to attend a Giants – Dodgers baseball game at Candlestick Park. where the film ends in a climactic shootout with Martin being shot dead on the pitcher’s mound. Candlestick closes at the end of the 49ers football season this year, and like Lee Remick, will also be just a pretty memory to me now.